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It's spring, and a young man's fancy turns to flooded streets: why does even the slightest bit of rain cause our Encino Village streets to totally flood?
You'd think we were living in Wyoming, or Louisiana; there's a river in front of my house; the water is six inches deep.
We were in car alarm hell this morning. Does anyone know where to buy spike strips?
I start every day with a look at LA Observed. The same blogger, author and former LA Times-man Kevin Roderick, writes The Valley Observed. Interesting history and current events here.
Glad to see we're getting some readers...now it's time to get involved and post. The SLO is on the job: cars were cited and, I believe, towed, yesterday (Sunday) and we had another conversation about the car alarm from hell. Things are moving.
Tell your neighbors about the blog and get them in the loop with all of this stuff. We can change our neighborhood.
The Sign
The alarm on the truck parked on Louise continues to go off with astounding regularity at all times of the day and night. At his request, I have called (SLO) officer Trulik each time to document the occurrence. Last night (Wednesday) he called me to say he was going to deal with it. He sounded convincing.
Still waiting to see someone else posting here...
encinowatch.com
This useful site (thanks to Barbara Hand) contains a lot of useful community and LAPD info. Much of it needs to be updated, but it's still a great service.
Here's info from John Bearie in the city council office re: Citrus Sunday. Seems like a good cause.
Councilman Greig Smith& the Valley Interfaith CouncilInvite You to Join...CITRUS SUNDAY!A fresh fruit drive to help the more than130,000 San Fernando Valley residents livingwithout adequate, nutritious food.It's as easy as 1-2-3!1. Pick the extra citrus fruit from trees in your yard2. Put it in plastic bags3. Drop it off at your local fire station (listed below)The Valley Interfaith Council will then collect the fruit anddistribute it to the needy at local food banks.SundayApril 9, 20068 am - 6pmDeliver your freshly picked (or purchased) Citrus Fruit to the following FireStations in the Northwest Valley:Encino: Station 83Northridge: Stations 70 or 103West Hills: Station 106Sherman Oaks: Station 88North Hills: Station 87Winnetka: Station 104Granada Hills: Station 18Chatsworth: Stations 96 or 107Porter Ranch: Stations 8 or 28West Van Nuys/Lake Balboa: Station 100* For locations & directions, go to: http://lafd.org/fsloc.htmBrought to you byCouncilman Greig Smith, The Valley Interfaith Council, & The Los Angeles Fire Department
Here's the email address for correspondance about this blog: encinoblogger@gmail.com. If you want to post, email me at this address and I'll get the user name and password to you. Please contribute, either by posting or commenting.
I have heard today from John Bwarie in concilman Smith's office about the proper forms to petition the city for parking regs on Louise Ave.. He's looking into it, as is Maritza, so we're already making progress. We need to reach a consensus on exactly what we want to do, though, so let's start a dialog on this before we go in too many directions.
Welcome to Electric Encino, the blog for Encino Village. This isn't my blog; it's for all of us who attended tonight's meeting, and anyone else in the neighborhood who wants to post info, ask or answer a question, vent (politely; no flaming please, or I'll take down the blog), and otherwise get the word out - whatever the word is. I'm hoping this will also be a vehicle for Councilman Smith's office and our SLO to keep us informed and alert.
Feel free to leave your thoughts in the "comments" section below;
that's the most immediate way to participate. Posting is easy: anyone who wants to post is welcome to do so. When I get a minute, I'll set up an email address for correspondance about the blog. Meanwhile, anyone who wants to post should contact me (here's a link to my email) for the password and go to it. (Update: the link now points to the email address I set up: encinoblogger@gmail.com.)
Since it's my soapbox right now, I'm just gonna say this: I hope that the energy that we all had tonight at the meeting can go forward and create a lasting neighborhood bond. In my time in Encino Village, I've seen other efforts to build a community here fail: other SLOs have come and gone; other bright young city council reps have drifted off to the service of more unified and vocal neighborhood associations. Let's keep this going, and try to do one small thing first; parking regulation on Louise is a good place to start. If we can see that through, then we'll do one more thing, and then another. After a while, we'll have built a neighborhood.
Good evening.
